International conference

New City in the Old Walls: Housing Construction

Forum - a branch of Riga Managers School engaged in organization and facilitation of international conferences, organizes the international conferenceNew City in the Old Walls: housing construction in Riga on 21 October, 2005 at the Radisson SAS Daugava hotel. The conference is supported by Riga City Council.
Social and economical development of cities, tendencies and perspectives of living conditions improvement in European cities, forecast for new housing construction including social houses, different forms of construction projects financing, the most perspective projects and its successful realization factors – these are  the key topics of New City in the Old Walls: Housing Construction conference. 

How dynamic is housing construction development in Europe?

Tendencies and priorities of housing sector development in Europe

How integration into the EU will change the situation in the Baltic cities?

How to create an effective system for housing problems solution?

Social and psychological aspects of city construction: how to reach the balance among city inhabitants and private investors and public interests of a city?

Creation of high environmental quality in a city within new housing construction. Reduction of negative influence on environment

New forms of construction financing and mortgage 

You will find out answers on these and many other issues from experts of city infrastructure management and managers of construction companies if you will become a participant of New City in the Old Walls: Housing Construction conference. 

Key topics of plenary sessions: 

During plenary sessions common tendencies of housing development in European and Baltic cities construction will be discussed, influence factors on possible changes on city and private business cooperation with regard to the EU enlargement and their possible cooperation ways analysis will take place.

•  Tendencies and priorities of European cities housing fund development
• Governmental programmes for housing construction and modernization
• Quantity and quality demand on housing development and planning of new housing construction
• Social and psychological aspects of housing and social objects construction development
• Social partnership while realising housing policy: keeping the balance among city inhabitants and private investors and public interests of a city
• Creation of high environmental quality in a city within new housing construction. Reduction of negative influence on environment
• New forms of construction financing and mortgage
• Social housing as a duty of integration policy in European cities. The impact of social housing on urban development
• Security and social integration into city area 

Workshops:

After the lunch two workshops take place 

1. Social housing and social objects construction: economic justification and consumer rights protection

• Social approach to government and municipalities town-planning policy
• International experience on socially oriented housing policy realisation
• The institutional and legal framework of social housing
• Macroeconomic situation and housing construction financing conditions
• Effectiveness of social houses construction planning systems in the Baltics
• Strategic projects of social housing development: construction, renovation, accomplishment
• Construction of energy effective and ecologically safe houses available for population of moderate-means
• Social housing construction policy from constructors point of view: financing, quality demands, competition
• PPP projects in the social construction sphere

2. PPP in objects’ construction, renovation and exploitation

• PPP – a modern model of financing for construction and renovation. Splitting of responsibility between municipalities and construction companies
• Government plans and perspectives for private-state partnership support
• PPP projects’ risks definition, evaluation and transformation
• Legal aspects of PPP:
• construction orders placing
• PPP projects planning and preparation
• projects profitability
• legal and political obstacles from an investors’ point of view
• PPP from a bank’s point of view
• crediting conditions, project risks and profitability evaluation
• financing of municipal objects by private investors means
• risks evaluation and splitting: who and what risks takes
• PPP projects experience:
• successful study cases
• activities during all project stages
• recommendation to private and state organisations

Aims of the conference:

•  To promote the international integration directed to successful experience accumulation during area decision making – single for the Baltic Sea countries
• To inform conference delegates about existing and potential development models of municipal housing construction, social housing construction and city social objects construction
• To discuss interaction between city public administration and private investors
• To contribute to opinion on effective city construction management and steady city development exchange
• To discuss the most interesting projects on construction methods improvement and municipal housing fund exploitation

Information on conference you may find at www.rmsforum.lv

You can reach us by phones

 (+371) 7 333167, 7 332871; fax (+371) 7334350;

or e-mail: forum@rms.lv